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Photos: Das Rheingold
The Melbourne Ring CycleDas RheingoldOpera AustraliaState Theatre, Arts Centre Melbournemelbourneringcycle.com.auLorina Gore, Dominica Matthews & Jane Ede as The Rhinemaidens & the Sea of...
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Photos: Die Walküre
The Melbourne Ring CycleDie WalküreOpera AustraliaState Theatre, Arts Centre Melbournemelbourneringcycle.com.auJud Arthur as Hunding, Miriam Gordon-Stewart as Sieglinde & Stuart Skelton as...
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Photos: Seigfried
The Melbourne Ring CycleSeigfriedOpera AustraliaState Theatre, Arts Centre Melbournemelbourneringcycle.com.auStefan Vinke as Siegfried.Seigfried, the third opera in the Melbourne Ring Cycle, opened on...
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Review: Super Discount
Super DiscountBack to Back Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company and MalthouseTheatre15 NovemberMerlyn Theatre, Coopers Malthouseto 1 Decembermalthousetheatre.com.auBack to Back Theatre are the superheroes...
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Photos: Götterdämmerung
The Melbourne Ring CycleGötterdämmerungOpera AustraliaState Theatre, Arts Centre Melbournemelbourneringcycle.com.auElizabeth Campbell, Jacqueline Dark and Anke Höppner as The NornsThe curtain to...
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Play with the Valkyries
This is a Door – All Day Play RoomPop Up Playground29 November to 1 DecemberTheatre Workstheatreworks.org.aupopupplayground.com.auPop Up Playground are bloody wonderful.Robert Reid, Sayraphim Lothian,...
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Playtime rocks
This is a Door 13Pop Up Playground29 November to 1 DecemberTheatre Workstheatreworks.org.aupopupplayground.com.auGo outside and play!Well, go to Theatre Works this weekend and play!The Pop up...
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What Melbourne Loved in 2013, part 1
Last year, I asked a few SM friends what their favourite moment in theatre was for the year. The responses were wonderful and remain some of the most popular posts; so, of course we're doing it...
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What Melbourne Loved in 2013, part 2
Today, my fellow-arts-blooger Jane Howard talks about the inspired ecstacy of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, photographer Sarah Walker talks about sighing in the theatre, and Mike Finch from Circus Oz...
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What Melbourne loved in 2013, part 3
Today is about artistic directors with Marcia Ferguson from Big West, Rachel Maza from ILBIJERRI and Ella Caldwell from Red Stitch.It's also about brilliant stuff that I missed.Marcia FergusonArtistic...
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What Melbourne loved in 2013, part 4
Today, Kerith Manderson-Galvin talks about queer art, Andy Freer from Snuff Puppets talks about what it means to show work in your home town, and Bron Batten reminds us why the funniest stuff makes us...
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What Melbourne loved in 2013, part 5
Today we go from a 45-minute play in the smallness of La Mama to ten hours of happiness at the Arts Centre and music floating through Docklands, with Patricia Cornelius, Bryce Ives, and Madeleine Flynn...
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What Melbourne loved in 2013, part 6
Today we hear from sisters Declan Greene and Ash Flanders, actor Soren Jenson and composer Andree Greenwell.Declan Greene and Ash FlandersThe Sisters GrimmPhoto by Claryssa Hummenyj-Jameson DEC and...
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What Melbourne Loved in 2013, part 7
Today's favourites are from playwright and play maker, Rob Reid, director Daniel Lammin and director Shannon Woollard.And remember that contributions are welcome from all SM readers.Robert...
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What Melbourne loved in 2013, part 8
Today, while Mark Wilson is swanning around Europe seeing Shakespeares, Karin Muiznieks talks about finding creative identity as a young woman, and John Paul Fischbach reminds us how wonderful it was...
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We loved NEON!
The What Melbourne Loveds are past the halfway mark, but today's favourites aren't up because I'm reading a lot of responses to an article based on Wesley Enoch's 2013 NSW Philip Parsons Memorial...
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What Melbourne loved in 2103, part 9
After a day off to talk about NEON, here's Keith Gow talking more about NEON. And Jason Cavanagh talks about how a moment of crisis got him acting again, and Kathryn Goldie talks about taking the...
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What Melbourne loved in 2013, part 10
Today, it's a Choir Girl reunion with writer and performer Sarah Collins, director Celeste Cody and head choir girl Chrissie Robinson. This year, they went to Adelaide, added new shows at the comedy...
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What Melbourne loved in 2013, part 11
Daniel Clarke, Penelope Bartlau and Matt Kelly: Melbourne really had some wonderful people.Daniel ClarkeCEO and Creative Producer, Theatre WorksPhoto by Eugyeene TehDAN: The audience response to the...
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What Melbourne loved in 2013, part 12
Today Hannah Norris and Scott Gooding make me want to go to Edinburgh and know that I have to see Adrienne Truscott's pussy, while Justine Campbell and Sarah Hamilton remind us that Today Tonight can...
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